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Teaching BIPOC Level 3 Improv: Exploring Premise & Game of the Scene

LEVEL 3 IMPROV Exploring Premise & Game of the Scene

This class is for students who identify as BIPOC only and is currently waitlisted for anyone who was not in BIPOC Level 2 in Session 1 of 2025.

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This class focuses on the “group mind” aspect of improv, and students will work together to perform twenty-minute improv sets that will eventually feel like complete shows rather than a series of unrelated scenes while continuing to develop their scene work chops. Students will play with the idea of heightening comedic elements in the second and third beats of scenes and using an opening to develop ideas for scenes at the top of a show.
 
INSTRUCTOR:
Mary C. Parker

DAY / TIME: Saturdays 11:00 - 1:00 PM (2 hours)

DATE RANGE:  8 weeks. 4/19, 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/31, 6/7, 6/14 *skip 5/24
CLASS SHOW  Sun 6/15 7 PM *subject to change

LOCATION: 1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR 97214

PREREQUISITE:  Level 2 at Kickstand or teaching experience elsewhere

ABOUT MARY C. PARKER
(She/Her)
Mary C. Parker is a performer, applied theater facilitator, and independent international scholar. As a performer, Mary has performed improv comedy in Portland, OR, London, UK, and Pittsburgh, PA teams in 175+ in-person shows including the Improv Festivus (Richmond, VA), Edinburgh Improv Festival (Scotland), Pittsburgh Comedy Festival (Pittsburgh, PA), and 2nd Best Fest (Richmond, VA). Her online improv has reached global audiences with over 6,300 views. In her applied theater work, Mary employs humor to deepen humility and disrupt fragility, one laugh at a time using a praxis of applied improvisation, playback theater, and theatre of the oppressed. As an international scholar, Mary has been on Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and Point Park Conservatory of Performing Arts and has researched and published on identity, comedy, and structural racism. In 2022 she was awarded a Frank-Ratchye Fund For Art @ the Frontier Grant to document and research the history of Black improv. Mary earned an MA in Applied Theatre, is a credentialed International Coach Federation (ICF) Professional Coach, and is soon to be a Certified Humor Professional (CHP) through the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH). More at www.marycparker.com.

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